Ack, Beer, Kilogramme, Uppsala, Xanthippe and other words that saved lives and led to our current phonetic alphabet.

The Military Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet. A phonetic alphabet is a list of words used to identify letters in a message transmitted by radio or telephone. Spoken words from an approved list are ...

A male is a ‘mike’. We use letters selected from a standard phonetic, or spelling, alphabet so nobody fumbles for words. Spelling alphabets came about because early users of radios ...

The phonetic alphabet aids global communication, ensuring standardization across aviation. Numeric standards complement the ...